I’ve been a dev in the curriculum design business for some decades. My first full time job out of Princeton, was at an elite school in Jersey City, run by the Dominicans (St. Dominic Academy, appropriately).
I was mostly a math teacher but had a section of World History and later, once they gauged my abilities, I team-taught an honors What Does It Mean to Be Human? humanities course. That was a privilege, to team teach with a Dominican nun, among others.
Throughout this period though, I was stuck on two issues:
- the role of computing technology in the high school math classroom
- the role of late 20th century philosophy of mathematics in everyday pedagogy.
These issues carried on through my career, including as a consulting editor for McGraw-Hill in the 1980s, and later founder of my own company, 4D Solutions.
I had returned from living in Eurasia and the East Coast (heavily influenced by Eurasia) to the West Coast and the city of my early childhood: Portland, Oregon. People still call it the Silicon Forest, and the subculture is not that of Silicon Valley, even if it features a lot of…
